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Latest News in Telecommunications

  • January 06, 2026

    Federal Circuit Backs Ax Of Transmission Signal Patent

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a suit accusing gaming hardware maker Razer of infringing a transmission signal decoding patent, agreeing with a California federal court that claims in the patent were invalid under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice standard.

  • January 06, 2026

    Markey Slams 'Reckless' Media Onslaught After CPB's End

    Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., blasted the Trump administration for what he described as a relentless attack on public media after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down following the termination of its federal funding.

  • January 05, 2026

    Lumen Says Telecom Charged It Tariffs For Toll-Free Calls

    Lumen, a trio of telecommunications carriers, filed a federal lawsuit in Colorado on Wednesday against telecom carrier Onvoy LLC alleging the Minnesota-based firm is improperly charging it tariffs on toll-free calls.

  • January 05, 2026

    Groups Urge FCC To Deny $6.2B Nexstar-Tegna Merger Deal

    Public interest groups, labor organizations and satellite companies are asking the Federal Communications Commission not to grant TV station giant Nexstar's request to approve its $6.2 billion plan to merge with rival Tegna in a deal that would breach the agency's national ownership cap.

  • January 05, 2026

    Apple Whittles Down 1 Of 2 Touch Screen Patents At PTAB

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has shot down one of Apple's challenges to claims in a mobile device user interface patent while finding that the majority of the challenged claims in another patent were invalid.

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